Countdown begins for the 2014 Missing Person Tour

Its Monday and we are days away from leaving to begin this years new travels, I feel an overwhelming excitement, but a feeling I welcome each year.

All orders are complete, rally stops lined up, cases selected, posting of updates and the list goes on in the behind the scenes of the work that goes into this task we take on to spread awareness of those who are missing and unsolved crime as well as the nameless, the unidentified. Sad as it is that we have to choose approx. 100 cases to annually feature, their are thousands that will not be across the nation. I too pray for them daily.

Soon volunteers will travel here to help in the packing, preparation and final touches of things we will need to take with us, in another word they will hit the ground running! The team that travels each year with us,  take off from their paid jobs, leave their families and work harder than any person working on a construction site all for the cause, for complete strangers, we are grateful and applaud the dedication to volunteer. CUE is blessed. :)

As the excitement begins to fill the air with all the families making their stop as complete as can be and last minutes changes we just fit in however it will fit, just make it happen always is the theme. No time to turn back now.....sleep deprived and stress at a level no one can really comprehend it all comes together that first step you take out of the vehicle arriving at your destination. You find yourself starring into the eyes of that mother, father, sister, brother, child or family member, even friends; there it is the glance of hope, will this be the event, the day my loved one will be noticed, or be found? This is the part of the tour that takes your breather away time after time.

Its hard to believe we have taken this journey 11 years now, I find myself holding onto each memory good and sad to keep me refreshed in all my task. For the next 8 days we will travel far north and then west until turning south for our way home. I pray once again for each family that is suffering and hoping again someone will be found because of our effort.

 Keep checking back for updates while we go along and please remember each stop in your daily prayer. Click  http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/on-the-road-to-remember-national-tour2014/

A heartfelt thank you is what we are sending out to each donor, sponsorship, volunteer who will help in the awareness, the families, volunteers and officials hosting the stops and those who have help in all the preparation giving many hours to make this tour happen.

Monica Caison